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Yixin Liu1, Ya-Jun Wang1, Yang Du1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital, State Key Lab of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Xuhui Central Hospital, Zhongshan-Xuhui Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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PubMed

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DNA nanomachinesan energy-saving modedistinct migration modesmechanical confinement

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